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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

By: RACHEL MCCOLLIN

Overview of this book

The chances are that more of your WordPress website visitors are using mobiles, or more clients are demanding responsive or mobile sites. If you can use WordPress to build mobile-friendly sites you can win more business from clients and more traffic for your site. "WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide" will benefit you whether you've dabbled in WordPress or worked with it for years. It will help you identify which approach to mobile is most appropriate for your site (responsive, mobile, or web app) and learn how to make each one work, demonstrating a variety of techniques from the simple to the more complex, working through clear practical examples and applying these to your own website. Start by quickly making a WordPress site mobile-friendly, using off the shelf plugins and responsive themes, choosing the best ones for you and customising them. This leads into responsive theme design, with advice on layout, images and navigation. Finally, learn how to build a web app in WordPress, making use of plugins, APIs and custom code. If you need to hit the ground running with mobile WordPress development, then this book is for you. With practical examples and exercises from the beginning, it will help you build your first mobile WordPress site without having to learn aspects of WordPress or mobile development that aren't relevant. It will also help you understand which approaches work and why, so you can apply this knowledge to future projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Moving on—planning for our media queries


You may have noticed that when you made your browser window very narrow, it made the site look tiny, and you couldn't read any of the text or see any of the images. If you didn't, give it a try! I'm sure you'll agree that this isn't ideal.

Media queries let us define screen widths using which we define layout styling changes and any other changes we want, to make the site easier to read and interact with smaller screens. So let's have a go.

Identifying our breakpoints

Before we can set any media queries, we need to know what the widths are of the devices that people will be using to visit our site. The most common devices to target are mobile phones, but we're going to be a bit more adventurous and target iPads and other tablets as well.

The devices along with their screen widths are as follows:

  • iPads in landscape mode (and on smaller desktop screens)—1024px

  • iPads in portrait mode—768px

  • Smartphones in landscape mode—480px

  • Smartphones in portrait mode—320px...